04/04/2007

moving the ball forward

i'm free saturday, monday and either tuesday or wednesday (but i don't know which yet). after that, we're spending a bit of time away. do you want to come around one of those days.

back to real blog content.

i've been thinking that maybe we should get an e.p. out, featuring a 'single' and some remixes of something we've been working on. if we got a handful of remixes onto cd, it would gear up things like fbi, 2ser etc and give us some time to get the rest of the album together. if we were to do it, what track(s) do you think are possible contenders? fairly obvious is 'this is the new thing', but other contenders may be 'listening in for static' or maybe 'send away' - i'm thinking radio friendly at this point in time. i've also thought perhaps we choose one and have its original version as the lead track, but then get remixes of another track or two, as well as a remix of the 'single', so that it's not just 5 versions of one track or whatever. i've kind of lost a bit of confidence in the vinyl idea, mostly because of the expense outlay, but i think a reasonable run (100-150) of a cd could be good. it would also give us a chance to jump into some artwork ideas without them having to be 'the album artwork'.

there's a few people who would be eager to do remixes (lipstick, victor x-ray etc). i've tried to track down a quote for people like rick to do one but haven't had much success liasing with his label.

1 comment:

david said...

EP is an excellent idea. Gives us momentum without rushing to complete the full album. Gives us a more sustained push than just a single album release. Gives us time to refine and develop the album. Creates more opportunity for artwork. Yep. great idea.

In terms of tracks to go on. Vocals obviously be pretty key to radio hookyness. I think TITNT is definitely single worthy - i also really like the current version requited love... that is the name right? as a b-side. Only have a few tracks here at work - will listen more at home and think about it.